Second Chance to Win James Patterson PageTurner Awards
James Patterson, the bestselling author is, for the second year, awarding cash prizes to those promoting a passion for reading -- booksellers, teachers, festival organizers, philanthropic groups, and others -- through the 2006 James Patterson PageTurner Awards. For 2006, however, he has dramatically upped the ante.
From 1852 to the mid-1960s, the New York & Harlem Railroad ran northward through rural southeastern parts of New York State, regularly delivering passengers between New York City and small towns in counties like Columbia and Dutchess. And while those steel rails have long since been torn up and recycled, the path of the old railroad is again bringing people upstate and into these bucolic villages.